Скачать или смотреть Over 130 different nativity scenes from around the world on display in Vatican City

(9 Dec 2025)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Vatican City - 8 December 2025

1. Faithful from Mexico taking a special nativity scene into the colonnade, simulating a “procession” on the occasion of the inauguration of the “100 Nativity scenes at the Vatican” organized by the Embassy of Mexico to the Holy See
2. Couple dancing in Mexican traditional clothes
3. Wide of Mexican dancers bowing at the end of the inauguration ceremony
4. People gathered at the Mexican Nativity Scene at the entrance of the exhibition “100 Nativity Scenes” under the Bernini’s colonnade in Saint Peter’s square
5. Close of Mexican nativity scene
6. Tilt down from the ceiling of the colonnade where the exhibition takes place
7. Various of mechanical nativity scenes all made in Italy
8. Mid of a modern nativity scene made in Japan using colored wax
9. Mid of a nativity scene from Taiwan
10. Wide of the nativity scene presented by Fondazione Villa Maraini, the centre for addiction in Rome, depicting a destroyed Rome to protest against war
11. Pull focus on the Baby Jesus in Fondazione Villa Maraini nativity scene
12. Wide of people passing in front of the nativity scene presented by ATAC (Rome’s public transport company). The nativity scene takes place inside the front of a bus.
13. Pan from the left to the right of the nativity scene inside the bus
14. Close of the nativity scene inside the bus
15. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Monsignor Salvatore Rino Fisichella, Archbishop and Pro-Prefect of the Decanter for Evangelization:
“So this is the 8th edition of the '100 nativity scenes at the Vatican.' In effects there are over 130 nativity scenes exhibited from at least 22 countries and so are the symbol of a true internationality that participates at this exhibition. But I must say that the most important thing is the message that comes from these nativity scenes. It means a message of hope, a message of peace and, like every Christmas, a message that obliges us to recognize ourselves, to respect and to love each other a little bit more.”

16. Close of a ceramic-made Virgin Mary holding Baby Jesus made in South Korea ++PARTIALLY OVERLAID ON END OF SOUNDBITE++
17. Close of a nativity scene inside a light bulb
18. Tilt up of an Ethiopian nativity scene carved from African rosewood
19. Various of the Indonesian nativity scene, representing Jesus' birthplace in the “hand of god” and entirely made of wood, paper and stockings
20. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Christian Chira, priest and curator of the exhibition:
“This year we had a nativity scene coming from Indonesia, that is, in practice, one of the nativity scenes that came from furthest away, or rather, was brought here to Rome. We always try include variety, choosing by materials, quality and originality of the different nativity scenes. Those are the choices, or rather the characteristics we choose for our nativity scenes.”

21. Tilt up of an Italian nativity scene made of straw and ceramics
22. Various of the nativity scene inside a tanning drum
23. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Beatrice Calvetti, artisan and maker of the nativity scene inside a tanning drum entirely made of leather:
“The tanning drum is an historical instrument of our area which is used in the production of vegetable tanned leather, typical of our territory of Ponte a Egola (a town near Florence). This represents everything we are, everything we have been, everything we are and that we would like to continue to be. It represents our faith, our work and our land.”

24. Close of a nativity scene inside a cigar box by the French artist Patrick Sinibaldi
25. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Aniko Schnider, visitor from Hungary:

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